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Monday, 17 January 2011

Metcalfe's Law

Afan Osman

January 17, 2011

Metcalfe’s Law

It is a law which was first expressed by George Gilder in 1993. It is talking about a value of telecommunication networking. The numbers of connected users are connected by the proportional square. This law helps internet and the social networking. It also helped the economy. “Metcalfe's Law also states that the number of possible cross-connections in a network grow as the square of the number of computers in the network increases. This is the law that governs network effects.”

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Telemedicine

Afan Osman

January 17, 2007

Telemedicine

Telemedicine is a new way for the patients to see and visit the doctors using the developed technology. It is used in some developed countries such as the United States of America, India, Canada, and so on. In Pakistan, the U.S embassy helped the governments to establish this new technology. By using the internet, anyone can see a doctor. I can call it the technological hospitals and people can see their doctors just by going online. Thanks for technology, now I feel confident about my health whenever I go because I have TELEMEDICINE. The doctors can check the patients, and then they can send the medicines required.

I think it has some advantages in the developed countries those who have great infrastructure. It can save much time for both the individuals and the doctors. It can also reduce the pollution a bit because people don’t need to use their cars or to use trails or other things to go to see their doctors. Another advantage is the individuals can see the doctors more and in a cheap way.

I think it is a good thing to use here because of the following reasons. Iraq is not a safe place, and the doctors can’t feel safe here. To protect everyone from the explosions, it is better to have telemedicine in the dangerous cities of Iraq. So both the doctors and the patients will be safe from anything dangerous. The Iraqi cities are good places to have some technological (telemedicine) hospitals because all the roads are paved and the medicine can be sent in a very short time.

I don’t see some obstacles in doing such a thing because Iraq doesn’t have hackers. So there will not be such a risk in front of it. InshaAlla we will have it soon. It just needs a simple decision by the Ministry of Health of Iraq.

Thursday, 25 November 2010

The Importance of Citations or reference

Afan Osman

November 25, 2010

The Importance of Citations or reference

The university students and the scholars always have to some resources while writing academic essays or reporting on something. Academic students, reporters, authors, scholars, scientists, and so on always want to write their ideas and publish it to the public. They all want their readers to take advantages of their writings, and they want to be effective. While having your ideas written down, they need some more things to support their ideas and points of view. So they will try to take advantages of the other writers or sources. That is to help them be clearer and more specific on their writings. People, the readers, will appreciate this kind of writing, and they will love to hear the new ideas. There is something which is worthy to be mentioned while somebody quotes the other writers’ ideas and pieces of writing. WE NEED TO WRITE THE NAME OF THE BOOK AND THE WRITER WHICH YOU TAKE POINTS AND IDEAS FROM; OTHERWISE IT WILL BE SOMETHING DEVASTATING AND SHAMEFUL WHICH WE CALL, “PLAGIARISM.” I can call it dishonesty of the studentwww.plagiarism.org, “plagiarism is to steal and pass off other (the ideas and words of another) as one’s own. Or it is to commit literary theft.”

The Video Cast

Afan Osman

November 10, 2010

The Video cast

The very short videocast was about how to convert a scanned image into a file document by free software. We can go online to www.ocrtools.com, and download free OCR Image ASCII Text Desktop Application. Then he talks about how the program is working. He clearly teaches us how to convert an image into a file document.

The Promise of Technology

by Afan O. Halabja

In a very brilliant speech Ray Kurzweil talked about the promise of technology in some next years. Having facilitated the humanity so far and having astonished the world, technology speedily is going to elaborate its capabilities all over the world. At the very beginning of his speech, he talked about the meritorious impact of technology on the poverty and diseases.. I am very thrilled and energized by what Kurzweil said.

The Biological Revolution

Afan Osman

October 17, 2010

The Biotechnology Revolution

The very astounding part of Kurzweil’s speech was the acceleration of technology. "We all know first the computers occupied rooms, and then it changed. The invention of the transistors has made it possible for many people to use computers and has reduced the expensive price of computers. After that, the circuits were created on computers which served us much" he said. These great changes on computers mean that there will be some other immense changes later. "The computers will despair by 2020, instead, there will be only the embedded computers," he declared fortunately. Those predicted imbedded computers are very small and convenient. They are much cheaper than the desktop or laptop computers. "The price of an embedded computer will be one dollar," he assumed. Being bought easily and being hold effortlessly, everyone will have the embedded computers. Technology has impacted on our lives in many aspects, for example, the communication through internet, the environment, and the health. I abruptly felt like million dollars when I heard from Kurzweil saying, "We can put the embedded computers into our brains and bodies so as to resolve the disease." That will be a great achievement in the human history. Look, what technology does! Then we don't have to be scared by the unknown diseases or anything else because technology always has a resolution for our problems.